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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  prospective students ought to be asking about schools they're considering, headed off with the questions What is the student mentality with regard to ... pressure to work hard, or do students in the program encourage each other to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  Now that I’ve survived enough midterms to know I won’t change my ... institute requirement. every MIT student has to take two semesters of calculus ... science class I’ve taken since high school, and I couldn’t be happier to be

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  favorite thing I build has to be the light sensing robot, a robot created ... robot Adam Hartz, and Adam personally came to look at my robot 😳😳😳 ... well with my learning style. I found it really cool to program in a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  chasing the aurora a celestial hunt

  

  This past Friday evening, I wished I didn't want to see the aurora ... looked forward to entering ~introvert hours~ all day... alas. A chase for ... [/annotation]raved over the aurora: Professor "Sorry to bother folks, but given how many

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to build digital circuits for all sorts of applications, from real-time digital signal processing to high ... prerequisite class, 6.1910 (Computation Structures), where we learned how to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Mailings & Comms

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  up and check AirNow to see if more smoke is floating down through the Great Concavity and I need to mask outdoors as well as indoors today my ... of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage with the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  of a pink shag rug, and every piece of laundry that I still need to do ... slams against it, and the beginning notes to The Middle by Jimmy Eat World [annotation note="to be clear this is the time stamp in the song, I will use

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  ="Introduction to Solid State Chemistry. Satisfies the Chemistry GIR."]3 ... outcome. I don’t think I did enough, despite knowing that I pushed myself to the furthest limits that I’ve ever taken myself to. Looking back, I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  After about **checks watch** 47 days of not blogging, returning to ... head, so many things I want to blog about, but I have seemingly struggled to get them out in any tangible way. So I continually pushed blogs

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  left living right next door to some of my closest friends. 84 hours left to stare out at a skyline that looks back at me. 84 hours left of what ... boxes bought from La Verdes. An hour before my flight was supposed to take

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2025 is now live

  

  I'm writing to announce that the application for first-year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2025 is now live. You can ... -time applicants to MIT, this application is newer than most, and we're [annotation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  extremely stir-crazy kids have learned to scale the fence between our yards so ... weightlifting (more on this later) it is time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage with the world https://www.youtube

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  And just like that my junior year at MIT comes to an end. Not with the usual last-minute packing or the rush over to Logan airport, but ... free time I did whatever I could to step away from it. Now that it’s all

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  interesting, but not mandatory. i may or may not go to them based on various ... mind. blue are mandatory, or important events that i'm committing to (i ... like going to the gym or running. as you can see... i need to work on

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  quickly 13 weeks go by. And just how little time there seems to be to ... impending deadlines and no where to be in particular. With nothing but all the time in the world for me to sit, staring at the ceiling, letting my

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Life Changing Classes at MIT ft. ec-discuss

  

  over IAP and talking about what classes we're excited/not excited to take ... for being somewhat spammy and prone to flame wars) thread that got ... thought that you guys might like to see the responses and maybe think about

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 20, 2019
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  , I get a sense that some of those wartime feelings continue to this day ... MIT and traveled to Japan." "That's good! But... why did you go to Japan of all places? Wouldn't other countries be more fun to visit?" Like my

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The REX That Was a review of the most recent confusion

  

  with the (soon-to-be-introduced) new bloggers for the Class of 2020 to help get them ready to start blogging. But first! The last two weeks or ... , which is part of how housing is assigned. According to MIT's Dormitory

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... weeks, I know many of you are eager to start thinking about how you'll answer these questions. Our approach to application "essays" is not a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  EECS student Michael McGraw teaches STEM concepts in Regensburg, Germany As part of the Global Teaching Labs program, student Michael McGraw taught Physics, Biology and…

  

  circuit to model public power supply using lightbulbs, hand ... to learn about power distribution and to gain a sense of the how the ... also had the opportunities to connect with the English department. We had

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 8, 2015